New York Clipper (Jul 1915)

28 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER Jafy 10 GOTHAM CO. EXPAin}IlfG. 4«ve enormous Increase In tta« bnslne^ ef tb* Geuiam Film Co. inc.. combined wltb the tmrrrliig Sat <rf the biB ptnas wMdi were laid out at tb* tnccTitlen of tne cumpasy, ba* caased tbft oMrd or director! to authorize tae InaesBe ot tin capital ttocfc to $1,000,000. tbiE iDcreAM la capltallsaaon -wUI clTe tlie co^ tU7 such elastivl^ tliat It will allow tbem t* •zpind In a number of directions. The company -was prhnarlly formed to t<le«*« on* picture a montb, pnttlns all Us time upon Ui» one production and makmg It tlie best tbat taohay and brains e^ali. produce, but tbe first ifeltase has made sucb a. bit that It has been de- cided to gradually Increase tlie output of tbe cob- taAy nnW by Oct. 1 It will be leleaslng obe ptctart ft week. TUs, ot oonrae, mean* an en- lariemeBt of the studio facilities, aadtteioOatloM art already undn way for a yust wMcb win o* bl|r enough to handle tbem. To keep up the quality of the prodoctlonB, MT* «ral prominent Broadway stars siay be ensaeed t» Appear In Gotham features, and a number of ta> ceiGfuI tioolu and plays will be purchased to gbtt* ti .vehicles for them. . _ . „ , _ In tbe company's last picture, "A Trade Seeret," Frederic de BellcTllIe, one of Broadway's most able Iradlnr men. and Betty Marshall, the Well knows •iDiilcal comedy leadlns woman, appeared as the prlnclpalB. Miss Marshall was so Buccessfal In tike picture that her servlcei have been zetalned I«r all future Gotham productions. THE THESC IS TIMEItT. Tbomaii Jefferson Is featured In "The Amerl- <!ano." a Reliance feature now being na.de at the CoAst stndtoa of tbe Griffith organlzatloas. It Is A dramo tic story of lore and adventure In Mexico. Bobert Haimnond,<manager of tbo Mexican braneb •f an oU company. Is slain In a native uprising. UlS daughter, Elaine, protected by Boyd Nor> ton, superintendent at tbi> worts. She Is kld>- uupped by bandits, but Norton takpo service under iLe constitutionalist leader, and eventoally rescues licT, As a scout In the army of General Ferranda, be advances to a position of trust The big effect comes when Norton Is acked to rspture a map which shows the foute of a supply train on Its way to the bandits He Is aesuted by Elaine and succeeds. Tbe bandit from whom tbe map Is talcen*l^*Tonlo, the murderer of Elaine's father. All ends hanplly. and Tonlo, the murdsKr, meets with a just fne. In addition to Mr. Jefferson the cast Include!: Uarenerlte Loverldge, as Elaine; I>awience Pajton, as BOyd Norton, and Baymond Wells as Tonio. Kate Toncray and Carl Formes Jr. aia other prln- elpali. GRIF. "WrLL "SFEECH A IiTTTLB." D. W. Griffith, the world famous Mutual di- rector, will address tbe twenty-six hundred motion picture directors who will assemble In San Fran- cisco when the National Exhibitors' Convention ineott there on Julv 13. Bis subject Is to be: "Tbe Blse and Fall ot Free Speech and Personal Liberty In America," that is to say, he will discuss eensor- ahlp. It Is Griffith's Intention to cite his recent difficulty In getting permission from various offi- cials to «how "The Bfrtb of a Nation." M. E. Corev, chairman of the National Cobven- tloo, feels elalcd over securing Griffith's attendance as a speaker. HOW DO YOV DO IT, JAOKt Director Jack Conway, one of whose flist prt>- ductlons at the Rellance'MaJestlc studios was "The Old High Cbair," Is very proud of the accompUfih- mebta of Gladys BrockwelL In spite of the search- ing eye of tbe camera. Miss Broclsn-ell accomplished three changes ot make-up tbrooKb tbe coarse ot the picture. At drst she Is a girl of twenty, then •>De of fifty, then a mere youngster of sevenrty-Sve years. In "The Old BlghV:halr." as projected npon the eoreen It l9 not at all .apparent tbat IUss Brodcwell has resorted to theZuse of pigment She aeems as her director would have her appear, mere- ly & parson who has aged. mENB IS A THEOSOPHIBT. Irene Hunt Is a theosophlst She admits it. In- deed, she Is proud of It and doesn't, hesitate t« ackDOwledce her belief before other members of tbe Reliance-Majestic stock companies. Players joke with. Mlds Hunt on the eutdect of tbeosopby. In "The Ueadllner," the latest Reliance nrodne- tlon In which Mlssitlunt la seen, ehe Is called upon, aa usual, to perform any number ot dangerous feats tiefore the camera. There Is a flre aeen^ dnr- loff the filming of which Miss Hunt ran many risks. Indeed, at one stage of the proceeding ber clolhes caught firo. Quick action on the part ot some of the camera aides and the use of oiablcets and buckets put out the flames. Miss Hunt was not Injured at all.' "Ton should not nm aoeb risks," said GeoTgo Walsh, also a member ot "The Headllner'e" cast, Mlu Hunt laughed. "Th&t was not I «lvo <ma •n fli^" said Miss Hunt, "that aa merely my datni prolecnon." £Dil sow the other plAyera irlsih Out tber van theoiophlsts, 'too. J17ST A UTTVE BOOST FOR A RSfiCKiAB. . .OhS: :<»t the most onassamins eentleaeil. end wltljSI .a clever actor, wbo has reeeatiy ptaB^ed Intel .the- mad maelstrom of motlcin plcturedom Is a ohafl named iBtdiel Lewis. Lewis nasn]^ playod any scar roles yet, but be will be beard frton In gooi tian as be bAs die necessary attill>iite% plenty at acting experience, a fine persosaBt; and a most ezMCSsIre pair of eyes. .DbUke several other newcomers to tbe tnovls flfld. Lewis Is modest, predicts sotbIo£ in tiie way of a gttrit future for bimself, and. all In an, aptly exemplifies the old saying. "A fnll barrel makes tbe. Ica^t noise." Seep your lamps Mltcbel LenJs,-you directors wbo are atways complaining tbat'good character men arc scarce AaiBBICAniBMf. Joseph Galsbaith, In' tbe leading role of "To Melody a Soul Besponds," appears as an old man. Finesse as a make-up artUt Is revealed as one of handsome Joseph's .many capabilities. His char- acterization of thu old muElc.master is excellent Mat Auia05. pla^ the feminine lead In "Secretary ot Frivolous Aftalrs," & four part Mutual master picture produced by American Film Mf£. Co., says she con speak six languages—Eng- lish. French, German, baseball, bridge and golL May is sure some "eddicated" person. Geosce Field, who takes a principal part la "Ziea Lake Mystery." the two reel '^Flying A'' re- lease for July 12. does & clever bit of apparent double character work in the piece. He is "Slip- pery Joe," an outlaw, and for a. time passes blm- eelt euccessfally as "Ur. Bond of San Francisco." Thtbe Is a remarkable display of fashionable frowns In tbe banqaet scene of ''Secretary of Frlvo- ous Affairs," the Mutual master picture in four parts, which is released July 8. May Allison, who plays "Lonlle," the leading woman In the drama, wears sixteen different costumca. In tbe same piece there is a great polo scene, with Harold Lockwobd, the d^oniir hero, as the leader of tbe athletes. Thb fomons "Beanty" players, Neva Qerber and Webster Campbell, both agree tbat "Applied Bo- mance" Is one ot the niftiest ot their screen suc- cesses. It Is an American "Beauty" film, released July IS. BNTER PRESB AIR «UO'VIGI.'' The White City, Chicago, has Inaugurated a aew picture play policy io take tbe place of big bnnd •rganUaUons as the leading free attraction fea- ture ot the park. The operaane booth and picture screen are out in tbe open Parisian Gardens, which have accommodations for ten thousand people. The Essanay six -part production, "Indian Wars Be-foucht by U. -S. Army," distributed excluslroly throueh tbe Central States by tbe W. B. Bell Fea- ture Film Corporation, C!hlcago, marked the opening of tbe new idea advertised extensively as "Fresh Air 'Movies.*" The initial ten days' engaiement iras declared a decided success. HELP WANHD TO BOOST THBSS OREAT SOIVOB i "m HEART IS ClLIiUG TOD" "WHY DID WB lOT PABTWHBN FIESTff E UBT?" "SLEEP OH, BBATB BOYSl" "WHO'LL PAT THE FBICBr 49-4 BEAL ONE3-«a By M. 0. BOBBDEAtrZ WHEN TOO BINO. SING SPISNDID SONGS ROBEDEAUX PUB'6 CO., 1531 Broadway. H.Y. ~ NOTES. ~ HEIUiAN TIUBERO will star in "School Days," under direction of Vaugban Glascr. "THE >H0C3B OF OLiA'SS" opens at the Cand- ler. New York, Aug. 23. "THE BOOMERANG" opens at tbe Belaeco, New York. Aug. 16. THE father of llattlc and Herman Tlntberg died last week. MINNIE GERSTEN Is engaged to be married to Benjamin Elgart A NEW Elks' Lodge hjs been formed At I'a;- cboKue, I,. I., N. Y. ' THE OLD GB..\1»EVINE," a resort at BI«veaitB Street and Sixth .^veua, Now York, well known to the actors and nportlag nun of years ago. Is being torn down. CYRIL MAUOIS sailed for England on tae American imer, J'ftftaifcl/iftla, July 3. JOE WEBliR^ "The Unly Girl" ooes on tour la September. >Hallle Spauldlng will sing tbe role of Msrmret. THE members of tne "Follies" Co, spent the Fourth of July at Long Beach, for an afteraoon outing. BROADWAY looked nnusuallT deserted last Sat. HTday. Sunday and Monday, but reports of blx ^w.^ .w» .^-^r, doings arrive from all the actors' resorts—Falr- seriee ot pictures to be released by the World Film haven, take Hopatcong. Atlantic City, Aabory Park. Corporation, in which all the great people of Amei* the Acllrondacks andKrceport. - ^ , , •--—^ •• - ■ ■• JAMES J. CORBOTT arrived In New Tork July 2, from Australia. JESS DANDY -win again bead the "Prince of Pils^n" Co. next season. STUDIO GOSSIP. Brno Lasdneb, tbe Chlcaso sportlns editor, r^ cenUy became famous by The Baturaau Evening Pott rorate. He wrote a series ot articles describ- ing tbe tmseball end other adventures of a nythlcnl young fellow wbo made Qus bis confident Bugs and Gus are the excuse for tbe making of the Boger Her- Iran baseball are seen, their very ownsclves. Breanahan, Honus Wogncr, Schulte. Garry mann and others. There Is & love Interest Bugs makes np to a pretty girl, but she prefers a bnsky bsU player. When Bugs; who has a wealthy parent, tries to Say ball, the effects arc comic m the extreme, e gets arubS at a dinner at which the bascbell magnates are present He has a dog whose an- tipathy to mnnlres Is ferocious. Thera are real baseball scenes, with real players, play the comedy, element, and the qualntnees of King Lardner's stories is absolutely rendered on tbe screen. The World Film anticipates that these Intensely tunny comedy films will go big anywber* and everywhere. Lsyoac TJLBiRn, whose two years' starring career in Oliver Morosco's sensational success, "Ilie Bird ot Paradise," has made her one of tbo "finds' of tbe American stage, got her start with a stock compsny in Milwaukee, where Buth Chatterton had already worked up to Ingenue roles. The nineteen ytar old Morosco star always refers to that en- gagement with amusement bcause she bad to "play everything from old women to babies." Just before leaving New York for the Moresso studio In LdB AnMles. to star In the new picture, "Kilmeny.** Mlas ulrlch ran across one of the mcm- "HEARCH UET wUl open Aug. 19 at Asbary Park, N. J. "CHIN-CHIN« closed July 2 at the Globe, New Tork, to rc-open Aup. 0. "THE .GinL_WEro SMILES" will open at the Lyceum, New York. Aug. 0. E. U. BOTBBRN will not open his engagement at the Booth. New York,untll October. PHYLLIS NEILSON 4?EBBY has sailed for Eng- land. MARIE CAHILL, who bas been at the Manbati- tsn Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, under treat- ment for a splinter that bad lodged In ber thi*oat, has recovered and is about sgaln. LOn TE]LLEX3EN will pose for. "The Explorer" pictures. "CHIN CHIN" Is due to oi>ea In Chicago on Labor Day. witb the original cast. "ON TRIAL" will brobably return to New York xm August, before golne on the road. MR. and MRS. THEODORE A. DOUCET (Eleanor Orayce), who recently closed with Ms- dame Yorska on tbe Orpheum Circuit are spendtnc a Aort time at West Baden Springs and French Lick before returning to New York. "BINALDO" (J. Sslsbarg), violinist, should pen — address 158 Canal Street, New last beard from he was In t^r^pj^:^ !^^^||! M/lfrirose Four, goes Sa«*wf5.^lUrs«n^''^'*' ""T^HWrL^Sff/'lgS.tYlrrS bers of tbe stock company, and epoko to blm before »,ia mdthi>r^ mri she-realised be had ^n inhaling rather heavily vor? citv Wbin of mx for which Milwaukee has long been famous. ISrenf lorn* vSr s "Llf gin, I did pick Rutb Chatterton, but tell you franicly I never picked yon." THB Three Dofor Brothers are booked for the Loew Circuit AHTHUB CI^MAGE Sn.TSIOAL COMEDY CO. cpened a two we&ef ensagomcnt at Rlie'slde Fark. Hutehtaieon. Kan., Juiy 4. W. P. LEWIS writes that he received so Jnrtny rbEwers to his ad. in Tre Ci.iprcn. for people, thct he found It Impossible to answer tnem aiL Habrt SriTtobEB, the leading Jnvenlle of the Fox Film Corporation, has completed a five part sce- nario entitled "The Westerfall Mystety." "The Westerfall Mystery" wns originally as a play, and is the efforts ot Arthur E. MaftHugh. who has been employed on the business stafl^ of such prominent maoaserlal sponsors as Lew Fields, John Xort the Bhuberts, and the late B. F. Eeltb and Charles Frobman. Mr. MacHugb ontcred the play In tbe amateor — prUe pUy contest that was conducted during tbo ^''^ "eat Immediately.to a Mlvat« lAnltbrium and Summer of 1012 by The PMlaaelphta BvontM •hod an cperaUon performed on bis n<Me and TeUoraplU While the phiy did not receive the SSO*''!'' throat la teeing fine again. HAVE NEW ACT, Shtni Rlveit and Ben Harrison have Just com- eletcd a tour of tbe U. B. O. time and Otpbeum ireult. and upon thsir arttval In New Yeri: ilarri- allottcd prize, still, however, the Judges of the contest, conststine ot prominent newspaper men in the Quaker City, remarked that with several slight changes the play would be worthy of a metropolitan .hearing. A pRuaifient aim concern hoe secured on option on the eccnsHe and intend giving the piece a Ecreto ptddoetl6n In thb very near fatate. li^EDQUCE AntiKDci,. Who bas'general cbaiee ot the music for D. W. Griffith's motion picture pro- ductions, ntomed eTuAEday from a trip to tbe West, where be wns in consultation witb Mr. Grif- fltb resardlng details for future photo spectaclea, which tbia master director Is planning to bring out Mr. Arundel will remain In New York long enough to equip the several orrbestros which aro to accompany tne road touts of Griffith's current mastnrplere. "Tbe 'Birth of a Nation." As soon as this work U finished Mr. Arundel leaves for Pales- They have a new comedy act, written by Jimmy Barry, of Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Barry, together with exclusive songs. It Is tuU ot btlsbt Itaes and laughs, ond is entitled "Another Bench Act." They carry their own musleal director, wbo alto does straight from the pit Thsy open diottly at the Palace and Keith houses, and have eeonred a long route for ncSt season. tine, flnfl the Orient to gather material for the forthccmlng score which will. be an important detail of Griffith's ambitions plan to reproduce In moHoo plctarn; tbe Qnert of the Boly Orall, as ontllned In Edwin Abbey's Immortal palntlnj:;. which now adorn the walls ot the Boston Public Library. Mr. Amndel. before be returns to Amer- ica to complete bis score, will bave visited the entire field covered in the locoto of this celebrated work.